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The last Democratic holdout on health care reform came into the tent this morning, as Ben Nelson said he will vote for the bill. "We're there," Sen. Kent Conrad told the Washington Post as he headed into a meeting to announce the deal, and Nelson, asked if he was prepared to support it, said, "Yeah." The breakthrough, which gives Harry Reid the 60 votes he needs to block a GOP filibuster, came after many hours of bargaining over restrictions on abortion coverage and goodies for Nelson's home state of Nebraska.

The Nelson amendment on abortion does not forbid insurance plans from covering abortion services, the New York Timesreports, but it gives states power to prohibit abortion coverage in the insurance exchanges where the plans would be sold. Reid introduced the latest version of the bill this morning, and Republicans immediately forced a reading of the 383-page measure, which the Times estimates will take at least 10 hours.

A what? Hippocrit? Nice try. You think that if you play stupid, and pretend like you don't know how to spell, then we wont notice that you're really just an insurance company hack. It 'aint happening.

tomodachi

Dec 20, 2009 12:10 PM CST

Correct me if i'm wrong, but i see nothing that regulates the Insurance industry... keeping them from charging any premium they want. I also see them getting a huge gift of new (mandatory) insured... giving them an increased revenue market... but not requiring them to be competitive. They won't be able to deny coverage... but they'll have limitless blue-sky ability to charge whatever premiums they want.